American ace said Sania has a solid game for her age.
The fifth seed Indo-American pair had to work hard for a 7-6(3), 4-6, 10-4 victory over the Slovakian-Spanish combo of Daniela Hantuchova-Anabel Medina Garrigues.
India's playing-captain Sania Mirza, who returned from the United States after achieving the World No.1 rank in women's doubles, did not need to take field in the Fed Cup tie against Pakistan as the players from the neighboring country proved easy meat for the two Indian girls.
However, the Indian ace said she would not use it as an excuse for the defeat in the women's singles final.
Riding on her semifinal appearance in the just concluded Aegon Classic, Indian ace Sania Mirza jumped 20 places to reach 78 in the latest WTA singles rankings, released on Monday.
The 18-year-old knocked out top seed Russian Vera Zvonareva 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 in the quarter-finals.
The 18-year-old thrashed Aiko Nakamura of Japan 6-1, 6-4 in the second round of the Japan Open.
The Indian tennis ace became the first Indian sportswoman to feature on the cover of Time magazine.
Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands earned themselves a shot at their third title of the season by reaching the final of the WTA Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart.
Sania Mirza, who got a wild card entry for the Olympics, indicated she has no problem in partnering Leander Paes in the mixed doubles event in London but hit out at the AITA for using her as a "bait" in the selection row.
Reader Prakash Rao sent us this picture from the USA.
India's Sania Mirza put herself in contention for a seventh Grand Slam title as she breezed into the Australian Open mixed doubles final with Ivan Dodig, beating local favourites Samantha Stosur and Sam Groth in Melbourne on Friday.
Sania Mirza and Chia-Jung Chuang fought valiantly but lost a tough semifinal battle to crash out of the euro 3,500,000 Madrid Open, going down in straight sets against third seeds Kveta Peschke and Lisa Raymod in Madrid.
Sania Mirza and her partner Chia-Jung Chuang advanced to the semifinals of the USD 4,500,000 Madrid Open after Russian-Belarussian duo of Victoria Azarenka and Elena Vesnina conceded their quarterfinal match in Madrid.
Tennis player Sania Mirza feels that events like the Asian and Commonwealth Games are important in understanding India's standing in sports other than cricket.
India's Sania Mirza and her Romanian partner Horia Tecau stormed into the semifinals of the mixed doubles event at the Australian Open with straight sets victory over Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Julia Georges, in Melbourne on Thursday.
Sania Mirza and her Italian partner Maria Elena Camerin entered the doubles quarter-finals of the Tashkent Open with a straight-set win over Lyudmyla and Nadiya Kichenok, in Tashkent on Wednesday.
Sania Mirza upset top seed Irina Boulykina of Russia to win the 10,000 dollar ITF women's title at Wrexham, England.
India's campaign ended at the Cincinnati Masters tennis tournament after Sania Mirza and Cara Black went down to Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain and Kazakhstan's Yaroslave Shvedova in their women's doubles second round match.
The Indian ace beat Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko in straight sets to advance to the main draw of the Acura Classic.
They lost to top seeded pair of Kveta Peschke and Maria Emilia Salermi in Cincinnati.
The Indian ace was beaten in straight sets by Japan's Akiko Morigami.
She beat Kristina Brandi 7-6, 7-5 in the second round of the Western and Southern Financial Group Women's Open.
Sania Mirza set up a second round clash with multiple Grand Slam winner and second seed Venus Williams after edging past Sesil Karatantcheva 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the US $1 million WTA Family Circle Cup in Charleston.
India's Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands crashed out of the Sony Open Miami Masters after losing their women's doubles quarter-final match against world No.1 pair of Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci in straight sets at Crandon Park.
Reader Mayank Agarwal sent us a picture of Sania Mirza from Hyderabad.
Sania Mirza and her partner Chuang Chia-jung of Taiwan rallied to stun eighth seeds Maria Kirilenko and Flavia Pennetta in a gruelling three-setter for a place in the women's doubles quarterfinal of the USD 4.5 million Miami Masters.
Sania Mirza entered the third round of the Guangzhou International women's tournament, shocking third seed Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan on Wednesday. The unseeded Indian ace, who lost in the second round of the US Open after making it through the qualifying rounds, won 6-4, 6-3.
The Indian ace will take on the 64th ranked Japanese in the first round at Wimbledon.
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza on Thursday hit out at politicians for raising objections to her being appointed as Telangana's brand ambassador, saying that her family had been staying in Hyderabad for more than a century and to call her an outsider was condemnable.
The Indian ace surrendered tamely after winning the first set to the US Open doubles champion in the first round of the Medibank International Open.
The Indian teenager, who faces Argentina's Gisela Dulko in the first round, will face a tough draw at the Grand Slam.
The Indian ace and partner Katarina Kachlikova of Solvakia lost in the second round of the doubles event.
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza on Monday rubbished media reports that she and her husband will appear in TV reality show Big Boss season-IV and said even if such an offers comes, they are not interested.
India's Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis, on Thursday, rallied to win their 29th match in a row, to reach the Sydney International women's doubles final and break a 22-year-old world record en route.
Farrington said the type of game the Russian star plays suited Sania better than any other player's.
Sania Mirza entered the main draw of the US Open, beating Columbia's Catalina Castano in the final qualifying round on Friday. The Indian ace, ranked 160th, got the better of the 188th-ranked Columbian 6-1, 1-6, 6-3.
In a big setback to the Indian Fed Cup team, Sania Mirza will miss the upcoming Group I Asia/Oceania zone tie, citing an abdominal injury.
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